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so what toy did you really really want but never got mine is

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pramsgalore · 21/09/2011 13:38

a mr frostie, asked for one every year and santa never brought me one Sad, santa said it was rubbish, but he always brought me a cadburys choc machine Hmm and never any refills Sad
so what did santa not bring you Grin

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anewmotivatedme · 21/09/2011 16:42

A wendy house.

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pramsgalore · 21/09/2011 16:46

we used to get a sleeping bag and my mums clothes horse and make a wendy house Grin it was really dark inside, never got a proper wendy house

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pastawine · 21/09/2011 16:54

a Simon - it was an electronic game thingy with 4 different coloured buttons that lit up and you had to press them in the right sequence.....i coveted one for years!

and when i was older i really wanted a soda stream. never got either. MY dh is currently buying up on ebay everything he ever owned as a child during the 70's. i should do the same with everything i ever wanted but didnt get!

pastawine · 21/09/2011 16:59

here.....this will please all you pests out there!

read and weep people!

suburbandream · 21/09/2011 17:00

Etch - a -Sketch. Was on my Xmas list every year for about 8 years and I never got one. Told BIL this story once and the next Xmas he bought me one Smile. I still can't draw anything other than square houses on it though.

GetOrfMo1Land · 21/09/2011 17:02

Jem. The doll who was a singer who had f;ashing red earrings. I really wanted her. Second best would be the asian doll with blue hair who had a guitar with a keyboard on it

I got a doll called Danse Hmm instead, she was Jem's choreographer. She didn't have flashing earrings or a keyboard guitar, the boring twat doll. Angry

GetOrfMo1Land · 21/09/2011 17:03

Etch a sketch was CRAP. Try drawing a horse with that, it is impossible.

Georgimama · 21/09/2011 17:03

I was very lucky on the toy front. I had a Mr Frostie and a My Little Pony Dream Castle and Grooming Parlour (that lot was all in one Christmas actually Blush) but what I really really wanted was a proper rocking horse with a horse hair tail and mane. And yes I am buying one for my children - about to take delivery of it actually. And yes it is so for me really.

GetOrfMo1Land · 21/09/2011 17:04

My best present of all time (including adulthood) was a mini plastic suitcase of 72 different coloured crayola crayons, including metallic and fluoroescent ones! I used to spend hours arranging all t

GetOrfMo1Land · 21/09/2011 17:05

oops

I used tp spend hours arranging all the colours. Crayola crayon colours were lovely - periwinkle was one, a lovely mid blue....

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pramsgalore · 21/09/2011 17:06

we bought dd2 an etch a sketch last year as it was on toy story, we played with it more than she did Grin
that book look great, that would bring back some memories Smile

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Georgimama · 21/09/2011 17:06

The names of crayola crayon colours were ace. This may be where some people's fascination with F&B colours was inculcated....

GetOrfMo1Land · 21/09/2011 17:06

Georgi - you hada dream castle AND a grooming parlour in the same year? Envy

I had the nursery where all the little baby my little ponies went in their little cots. I wasn't allowed to play with it because I would break it Sad

suburbandream · 21/09/2011 17:06

GetOrf, you are right, Etch a Sketch completely failed to live up to my expectations! I also wanted a Girl's World - silly plastic head that you put makeup on and styled the hair. The deluxe version had this enormous bit of extra long hair that you could pull out of the middle of her head, very strange looking back on it.

GetOrfMo1Land · 21/09/2011 17:07

YES - we should ask Lequeen if she had crayola crayons when she was a child.

How many different shades there were - I used to debate endlessly if I preferred red-mauve or mauve-red Hmm

Georgimama · 21/09/2011 17:08

I did (and the Mr Frostie). That was actually the best Christmas ever - the one I remember when I think of childhood Christmases. It is shallow (but then children are) but that year we all got our dream presents, and all the grown ups were in a lovely mood, and the turkey was perfect. Sigh.

GetOrfMo1Land · 21/09/2011 17:08

I also wanted a ZX spectrum plus.

My friend had one. It scared me and fascinated me in equal measure.

Georgimama · 21/09/2011 17:09

I bet the farm she did. There was a great orange called salmon as I recall.

(adds crayola colour wheel to list of presents for me DS).

GetOrfMo1Land · 21/09/2011 17:09

Georgi did you see that thread some time ago with a link to an Argos catalogue circa 1985 - the toys were so expensive compared to today.

Now I know why I was only alllowed to groom the my little ponies under supervision.

Actually, no, that was madness Grin

GetOrfMo1Land · 21/09/2011 17:11

shrieks with excitement

Georgimama · 21/09/2011 17:11

Yes I did, some of the prices were actually more than they are now. I can remember when I was 10 (God I am sounding like such a spoiled brat now - if it helps my teenage years were steeped in penury) my mum and dad bought me a colour TV for my bedroom and that was £150 which is more than you'd pay for one now.

GetOrfMo1Land · 21/09/2011 17:12

I tried to buy a 72 colour suitcase last year in a fit of nostalgia.

They no longer make them.

I bought one for dd when she was about 4 and they still made them, she didn't treasure it, the heathen, and broke all the crayons and lost some.

I shouldn't have let her play with it.

Georgimama · 21/09/2011 17:12

That's a F&B chart surely?

Georgimama · 21/09/2011 17:13

I shouldn't have let her play with it.

Mum and dad had a point about the my little ponies maybe eh? Wink

GetOrfMo1Land · 21/09/2011 17:14

Some of the modern new fangled crayola colours on that link are ludicrous.

Purple Mountain's Majesty?

Pah.